Topic: BULK Chicken Ceylon

[976bar]

Here's another bulk curry for you.

Ingredients
15kg Chicken Breast

[KINGPRAWNphatia]

Hi i dont understand?15kg of chicken is 60 portions,but only 4.5 litres of base?
please help.........

[Peripatetic Phil]

Looking at Bob's other "BULK" recipes, those proportions seem pretty consistent, so I would be reasonably confident that (a) they are what he intended, and (b) they work in practice -- Bob works in a university kitchen, so knows what he is talking about.

** Phil.

[Edwin Catflap]

I agree does look low even with all the other liquid. 60 portions of a typical 300ml sauce is 18litres so there's a big disparity? 4.5 litres equates to just 75ml of base per portion?

Ed

[Sverige]

When cooking in bulk to such a degree as these recipes represent, you can't reduce the base sauce down as far as you can in a small pan containing only a portion or two.  The amount of base Bob is adding might seem low to you, but I bet it is used to provide enough liquid to achieve the right consistency and after cooking out for the requisite time, it will not need topping up with more base as the water lost through evaporation will be much lower (proportionally) than for a smaller batch.

Bulk cooking is a little different like that, and if you wanted to get technical you could calculate the amount of heat energy needed to evaporate 200ml of water from 350ml of base and multiply that energy by 60 to see if it seems reasonable that a commercial cooking range could supply it, or whether Dungeness B has more chance of achieving the feat.

[976bar]

Hi Guys,

To put you out of your misery, we steam the chicken in a professional Rational oven. That amount of chicken produces quite a bit of water, some of which we add to the final dish.

I've also updated this recipe and now mix the coconut milk powder with 2 litres of semi skimmed milk. It gives a more creamy consistency to the coconut milk.

There will be more than enough sauce to go round. Equally if you are selling this on a street food stand you would not get 300ml of sauce on your take away carton. Nearer 150ml. Hope this helps.

Rgds, Bob